I Tried for #PoolLife but I was Too Tired 😞

My plan this weekend was #PoolLife. After a busy-busy week of work Friday would be a half-day, I'd enjoy the pool mid-afternoon in the heat, then having little else on my calendar this weekend, do more of the same Saturday and Sunday afternoons while the warm weather lasts. Alas by the time I finished work Friday sometime after 3pm I was too tired to bother going to the pool. I just wanted to lie down and take a nap. 😧

I'm-too-tired continued to be a challenge over the weekend. Saturday I ended up not using the pool at all. Sunday I went for an hour because I forced myself to, frustrated that I didn't want to let my grand plan for the weekend go completely unacted upon.



Yes, going out to the pool for a while was nice. It was also tiring. I wound up microwaving some Hot Pockets for dinner Sunday night because I was too tired to go out for dinner and also too tired to actually cook anything. Sunday night I went to bed right before 9pm, once again lying down to sleep while there was still light in the sky.

Now it's Monday morning and it's almost time for work. Where did my weekend go? I feel like I slept/sleep-walked through too much of it. 😞

4 Years with "Ocean" (Our Car)

Recently we passed the 4th anniversary of buying "Ocean", one of our cars. It's a BMW 230 convertible.

We bought the car used from a dealership in San Diego county. Yeah, that's not exactly right next door. The first thing we did after signing for the car was drive nearly 500 miles home.

Here's a pic from when we picked it up:



We bought the car, a 2018 model, with 24,xxx miles on the odometer. Today it's at 57,xxx. So we've driven it about 33,000 miles in 4 years. That averages out to 8,250 miles/year, well below the US average of 12-15k per year.

How do we like it? We still like it a lot! The car looks great, and a convertible is awesome in this part of California. Mild winters and mild summers mean we can drop the top to enjoy al fresco driving much of the year.

This car has a less powerful drivetrain than the BMW convertible it replaced. It's certainly no slouch with a 0-60 time under 6 seconds, but our previous car was even faster. We almost never miss the extra oomph. The car has all the creature comforts we want, which is way more important than winning stoplight races.